I have an annoying problem with Visual Studio highlighting. I installed my favourite colourscheme (zenburn 2010), and I have found that when I'm in debug mode, this will happen when my application is paused:
I have run through the hundred or so colours in the settings window, but I am unable to locate the setting that will affect this background colour. It's not exactly a show-stopper, but I'd still really like to know how to solve this.
I have resharper installed in case that affects anything. I can't see how it would though.
I think you want either the Collapsible Region element, or the Selected Text element
Changing the background color of the Read-Only Region element solved the issue for me. (See this article for more detail.)
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This blue rectangle is fixed on the screen. Sometimes growing, shrinking and changing place.
tried the answer to this question:
In the Visual Studio SQL editor, how do I get rid of the boxes?
as I thought it might be related but didn't help.
How to get rid of it?
The box is drawn by Windows' Narrator feature for people with low vision. I recently accidentally toggled this myself by hitting winkey+enter. Hitting it again and moving the mouse cursor seems to toggle it back off again as well.
As mentioned below, depending on the narrator shortcuts configured on your system one of the following may work:
winkey+enter.
caps lock+esc
Full overview of narrator hot keys can be found here.
For some reason Winkey + Enter didn't work for me. However I found Caps Lock + Esc did the trick. See Narrator Shortcuts for more info
It looks like you have an extension installed which is adding that box. Try disabling extensions until you find the one that is causing this
Tools -> Options -> Extension Manager
I find the dark theme much easier to concentrate in, but I think I mucked something up a while ago and it turned the dark theme text editor into a monstrosity:
I tried clicking reset to defaults in this menu:
But it appears that that menu does not control this specific part because it did not change it back (Or god forbid it's supposed to look like this)
Does anyone know the solution for this?
It looks like you have an extension installed that is providing that coloring. Go to Tools->Extensions and Updates and check if there's anything about alternating line colors (perhaps this extension), and disable or uninstall it.
I use a custom color scheme in Visual Studio (black background, gray text, etc.). There a few settings that refuse to change, however. For example, when cursoring through the markup for an aspx page, the current tag defaults to black text, which doesn't work well on my black background. I've previously changed the appropriate setting to a "visible" color. In fact, to fix it, all I have to do is open the Options window, check and uncheck the Bold setting on Plain Text and hit OK, and now all my chosen settings are properly loaded. If I open a new session though, I have to go through these steps again. There are only a few settings where I notice this behavior (the Read-Only Region is another one), but it's annoying to have to do a dummy option change to get them to kick in. Has anyone seen this behavior before, and does anyone have a fix/workaround?
UPDATE: Found an interesting fix. I still don't know what the root cause is (probably some corruption as #sliderhouserules suggessts), but I've got a quicker way to fix it than using Tools | Options | Fonts and Colors. I simply exported my current color settings and created a macro to load them in:
Public Sub ImportColors()
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Tools.ImportandExportSettings", "-import:""C:\Documents and Settings\gregf\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Settings\FontsAnColors_Exported-2008-12-05.vssettings""")
End Sub
I then mapped that macro to a button on my toolbar. Now I have a one-click fix whenever my colors go awry. Not ideal, but much less painful now.
Sounds to me like you may have some corruption in your VS install or something (IE you need to reinstall VS). This doesn't sound like a bug, and you'd be fishing in the dark trying to repair your registry or whatever config files are involved in setting and storing these options for VS.
I imported my old fonts and colors settings under environment, and my code looks the way I like it, but I don't see where to change the look of the blue border surrounding it.
If anyone knows where this is, please help me complete my usual post-install pimp my IDE routine...
Install the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/20cd93a2-c435-4d00-a797-499f16402378
You cannot - there simply isnt any support for that. As MicTech said, this might appear in teh next version, or perhaps even the next SP for VS2010. Why? because it's not that hard, now that they've rewritten it in WPF (its not the WPF that makes it easier, its the rewritten architecture).
The tiny text entry cursor in the Visual Studio 2005's editor is driving me nuts. I'd ideally like to be able to highlight (say in yellow) the entire line that I'm currently on, but I'll settle for just making the cursor bigger and/or a different colour. Any help gratefully received!
CodeKana allows you to highlight the current line among other nice features. AFAIK Visual Studio has no built-in support for highlighting or otherwise making the current line obvious.
Under Control Panel, Personalization, Choose Mouse Pointers, try different color schemes/pointers for the Text Select cursor, "Windows Inverted (system scheme)" seems to work very well for me.
I found this solution here:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/3b131a04-9a51-42c9-b69e-73e6e70c15a7